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Spillane has been compared to Chandler and Hammett, this novel is in print over 50 years after it was first published, and Ayn Rand is a fan. (Kiss of death that last I'm sure to many, but I like Rand's style and expected I'd be impressed.)
Reader, I hated this. Immensely. Couldn't even last to fifty pages.
The style reads like a parody of hard-boiled detective fiction a la Chandler and Hammett and featured black dialect that was cringe-worthy. However, it wasn't the style that made this impossib ...more
Reader, I hated this. Immensely. Couldn't even last to fifty pages.
The style reads like a parody of hard-boiled detective fiction a la Chandler and Hammett and featured black dialect that was cringe-worthy. However, it wasn't the style that made this impossib ...more
Feb 02, 2011
Nicole
marked it as to-read
Mar 22, 2011
Angela Randall
marked it as to-read
Aug 25, 2018
Barbara
marked it as to-read
